[lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarter

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Sep 21 08:47:57 PDT 2005


On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:


> They can, but short selling is risky, and kind of disreputable. (Short
> sellers are like Wall Street's gangsta rappers.) More people make more
> money on the way up. But didn't Rhett Butler say you can make a fortune
> more quickly when something's falling apart?

Also isn't buying when things hit bottom the most reputable thing of all? I think it was the Baron de Rothschild who said "When the streets of Paris run with blood, I buy."

Michael



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